Colorado Weekend Cheers n Jeers

From: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20006

Drive: 1,113 mi (about 17 hours 21 mins)

1. Head south on E Executive Ave NW toward Alexander Hamilton Pl NW

1. Turn right at Alexander Hamilton Pl NW

1. Take the ramp onto E St Expy

1. Take the I-66 W/US-50 W ramp

1. Take the right fork to I-66 W/US-50 and merge onto I-66 W/US-50 W

1. Slight left at I-270-SPUR N toward Rockville/Frederick

1. Slight right at I-270 Local N toward Montrose Rd

1. Continue on I-29 N/US-71 N

1. Take the MO-371 N/MO-273 exit 20 to Weston/Atchison

1. Turn left at MO-273

1. Continue on MO-92

1. Turn right to stay on MO-92 W

1. Continue on Metropolitan Ave

To: 1300 Metropolitan Ave Leavenworth, KS 66048

Cheering and Jeering starts after the jump...

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Jeers to the Horsetooth Reservoir Mercury story...it's the gift that keeps on giving.  The water from Horsetooth comes from the Western Slope, raising interbasin transfer water quality issues.  Thanks to the Bush administration for protecting our air and water.

Don't eat walleye caught at Horsetooth reservoir.

Cheers to Governor Ritter.  Ritter moves Colorado's water policy from building more dams to conservation.

And Cheers...for looking into the effects of coal bed methane mining on water quality.  Has any state ever gone from a worse governor to a better one?

Cheers...This doesn't sound like someone running for office.

Political analyst Floyd Ciruli said Ritter's priorities are a change of sorts for the state.

"This is not new. We've been doing this for a long time. But now it is stated very clearly that this is the policy of the state," Ciruli told the crowd at the Water Congress' annual convention. "Conservation is now going to become absolutely the top priority for us."

Cheers to Rep. Salazar.  For counteracting some of the bad news Colorado Congressmen have been getting lately

Jeers.  Umm, just jeers.  Tancredo's bid for the presidency at Intrade recieves a lukewarm reception.

Cheers to sexist humor:

There is a man who has three girlfriends, but he does not know which one to marry. So he decides to give each one $5000 and see how each of them spends it.

The first one goes out and gets a total makeover with the money. She gets new clothes, a new hairdo, manicure, pedicure, the works, and tells the man, "I spent the money so I could look pretty for you because I love you so much."

The second one went out and bought new golf clubs, a CD player, a television, and a stereo and gives them to the man. She says, "I bought these gifts for you with the money because I love you so much."

The third one takes the $5000 and invests it in the stock market, doubles her investment, returns the $5000 to the man and reinvests the rest. She says, "I am investing the rest of the money for our future because I love you so much."

The man thought long and hard about how each of the women spent the money and decided to marry the one with the biggest breasts.

Cheers.  A free downloadable skiing game.

Cheers to moving the caucus up.  It's about time Colorado was relevant.

Jeers.  There he goes again. John Suthers is spending taxpayers money writing "Friend of the Court" briefs.  This time, he's saying workers shouldn't have to subsidize political speech they don't agree with.  Oh, the irony.  What about taxpayers subsidizing legal bullshit we don't agree with?

Crossposted at Squarestate.net